I am attending a wedding tomorrow. Bride thinks the 08-08-08 date is good luck. The wedding is at 3:00 PM though, so there's no 08:08 AM or 08:08 PM mojo associated with it.

I fear everyone will expect my girlfriend and I to schedule a 09-09-09 wedding, to keep the theme going. I'm not into that kind of stuff though.

So after December 12, 2012, what other interesting dates are there. January 23, 2045 (1/23/45?). I remember someone trying to pay attention to 1:23:45 PM on June 7, 1989. Don't think anything interesting happened.

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how." -- Edward T. McMahon, The Conservation Fund

08-08-08 is Stockholm Sweden's day!

Stockholm (the Swedish one) has telephone area code 08. So 08-08-08 is thought of locally as Stockholm Day.

Next week is the Annual Water Conference (used to be "Festival" until they found too many negative environmental impacts connected with the fun and games, dirtying the water that the city is so famous for, and proud of).

With that in mind, a couple thousand young people have planned to a squirt gun war in the Old Town to celebrate 080808 (as Swedes write it). The weather is joining in with torrential rains promised. Here we fight "with" water, and in our conference the issue of increasing conflicts "over/about" water will be a common topic. Another irony in this story is that the two sides call themselves the "North Army" and the "South Army" representing the respective northern and southern parts and suburbs of the city. The southern side of Stockholm has a much higher predominance of third world immigrants and refugees.

The number 8 is very auspicious in China. Circles/rings have special meanings in many cultures. 8 is a double ring. Turn it sideways and you have the symbol for infinity. China chose to open the OS on 08-08-08 at 08:08 precisely because of its symbology.

The number 8 is very auspicious in China. Circles/rings have special meanings in many cultures. 8 is a double ring. Turn it sideways and you have the symbol for infinity. China chose to open the OS on 08-08-08 at 08:08 precisely because of its symbology.

Enjoy the day!

The thing I find curious is that they chose the "8" because of its symbolic significance to Chinese culture....but don't the Chinese have a different calendar? 2008 should bear NO cultural significance to the 1.4 billion non-Christians there. And someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it still the seventh month of their lunar calendar right now?

Yeah yeah, I know most Chinese rely on the Gregorian calendar for day to day business purposes but I'm just saying....

People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor

Your point is valid, Maister, but globally the Gregorian calendar rules ... and the Olympics is an international event.

There are a large number of traditional calendars used locally around the world. Even the lunar calendar is not the same (surprise!) from one place to another.
But these different local calendars can make international work quite fun. Work in Thailand for 365 days and you'll celebrate 3 New Years! In countries using the lunar calendar, depending on WHICH 365 days you live and work there, you might even get TWO new year's holidays on the same calendar! Ethiopia has 13 months.

What's also fun due to calendars is virtual time travel. I work in both Egypt and Thailand, so I travel from the 1400s (in Egypt) to 2008 (in Europe) and then on to 2550 in Thailand.